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Trigone vs Triangle - What's the difference?

trigone | triangle |

As a noun trigone

is (botany) thickenings of the cell wall at the angles where several cells join.

As a proper noun triangle is

the area comprising the cities of used with "the" except when attributive.

trigone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Thickenings of the cell wall at the angles where several cells join.
  • * 1992 , Marie L. Hicks, Guide to the Liverworts of North Carolina , page 66
    • Leaf cells are about 25–30 ?m, with thin walls and bulging trigones .
  • *
    • The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis'', with nodose "trigones " at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in ''Frullania spp.
  • (anatomy) A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, bounded by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

    • Anagrams

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    triangle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
  • (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
  • (cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
  • A love triangle.
  • * 2009 , Neil McDonald, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:
    • One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.
  • (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
  • A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
  • (historical) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.

    • Synonyms

    * (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See also

    Derived terms

    * acute-angled triangle * acute triangle * anal triangle * Bermuda Triangle * black triangle * circular triangle * cyclic triangle * Devil's Triangle * equilateral triangle * eternal triangle * femoral triangle * golden triangle * Golden Triangle * isosceles triangle * love triangle * North Atlantic Triangle * obtuse-angled triangle * obtuse triangle * Pascal's triangle * Polynesian Triangle * pubic triangle * Reuleaux triangle * right-angled triangle * right triangle * scalene triangle * set triangle * Sierpinski triangle * spherical triangle * star-triangle relation * Sunni Triangle * triangle choke * triangle inequality * triangle offense * triangle piercing * triangle test * triangle wave * triangular * triangular distribution * triangular function * triangular prism * triangulate * triangulation

    External links

    * (Triangle) * *

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